In May 2016 our Settlement Watch team exposed that the construction of a huge structure referred to as the \u201cAmana House\u201d in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem is currently underway. The structure is intended to serve as an office building for Amana, a private entity operating toward establishing and expanding settlements and responsible for many of the illegal outposts in the West Bank. Construction of the settlement is supported by a wide array of governmental institutions, headed by the Israel Land Authority (ILA). The ILA, in an illegal and misleading procedure, expropriated private Palestinian land, and handed it over to Amana, a right-wing pro-settler organization. It is important to note that two of the leaders of Amana were recently questioned for allegedly taking kickbacks from a settlement development firm, and that the Amana owned \u201cAl Watan\u201d company is subject of a police investigation on extensively fraudulent practices in land transactions.<\/p>\n
We call upon the government to stop the construction immediately and return the land to its owners instead of continuing to make a solution in Jerusalem more and more difficult.<\/p>\n
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